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I read this three, four times to make sure everything checked out... This is exactly the situation I recalled at the mention of Danes and have tried to be explaining to you as most plausible. I just feel there's a lack of clarity, because I'v already said this more or less and you've been...

Whatever, we have sources saying they were.

To spread Dar-Al-Islam to all the good people of the Earth, perhaps.

Originally a stock, not sub-stock. They evolved to become not just distinguishable, but distinct, whereas the Swedes... stayed the Swedes. Most likely they're the same people, especially if they're used to describe a tribe that inhabited the exact same area... I don't understand what you're...

This was a pretty tough question. I'm going to say it is the easiest to reach the Danube from the north through the Caucasus and Ukraine, second easiest to the Rhine, third easiest the Danube across Anatolia and the Bosporus.

The Greek Procopius and Byzantine Jordanes both wrote that they were related to the Swedes. This could be a generalization of closely-related Nordic Germans, though given their location it would make sense that they became Isolated from the rest of the Swedes after the Gutnish/Geat invasion...

Yes, I didn't say they were not. Based on linguistic evidence and similar historical situations, I believe that the "Jutes" were originally "Gutes" who displaced the Cimbri of the peninsula in the fourth century A.D. and quickly morphed culturally and linguistically to become their own distinct...

Inside Gaul, the Celtic town network held to a mythology similar to but distinct from the Insular Celtic peoples of the British Isles. Along the Rhine were Germanic-speaking tribes such as the Chatti who would have been very syncretic in lifestyle and religion. In fact, it is the Celtic high god...

Doomed to be dismantled, definitely. Doomed to end in the way and time frame it did? Not at all.

This would have been very difficult, as Frisia/Lotharingia was pretty much the heart of the HRE with its capital situated very near at Aachen.

This is exactly where I was thinking. There or the Caucasus.

Vote to Bulgaria

I believe they all descended from the Gutes of Gotaland since it is a fertile but cramped island. It inspired me to make this map.

Burgundy was my first thought, or a powerful Savoy that remains independent. Maybe an Alsace International Zone in some ATL, or a mega Frisia.

Perfectly possible, but it would produce small minorities among larger ethnic groups, as the Mongols themslelves were relatively few, a warlord people who depended on Turkic tribesmen and Chinese conscripts for imperial expansion.

Yup. Whether they'd assimilate cultures or be assimilated would depend on butterflies but I would imagine where would be a trend of cultural divergence, much greater than in OTL.

The point is that leader doesn't have to be religious, it could by fueled by lust for land and loot. Imagine hordes of pagan Bedouin taiders from the desert.

Probably the Byzantines, they were in the best position to give Arabs problems.

Probably, you'd just need something to unite them, maybe a common hatred for an enemy or something.

I misread, I thought you said Indonesia instead of Indochina. They don't really use French in Indochina anymore, it has been being replaced with Chinese and English but I don't know to what degree; Neither is an official language any any regional country besides Singapore.